Have a Dad? Aware that Father’s Day is right around the corner? Don’t want to get him another tie? Need some gift ideas? I’m here to help…sort of. These are not your run of the mill Father’s Day present ideas but then again, I’m not your run of the mill gift giver.
First up is The Gentleman’s Bedside Companion.
In this book you will find a vast variety of tid bits. Here are a few of my favorite
chapters: Human Anatomy for the Practical Man, The Weirdness of Earthquakes, Ball Lightning, The Story of Heroin, Famous Car Crash Victims, To Cuff or Not to Cuff, How to Iron a Shirt, Best Ever Book Titles and How to Slaughter and Bleed a Pig.
In the section on Old-Fashioned Activities you are given some history to the Ship in the Bottle which has always fascinated me.
A little slice of miscellany is never a bad idea in my opinion.
Secondly we have Farts: A Spo
tter’s Guide
Yes, I’m serious. I gave this to my Step-Dad and he absolutely loves it. In this book you learn about and can listen to the 10 types of farts. 
10 types of farts? Who knew? Here they are:
The Seismic Blast, The Silent but Deadly, Blowing Smoke, The One That Got Away, The Flight of the Buttock Bess, The Poof, In Between States, The Sleeping Dog, The Long Good-Bye and The Aftershock.
For the Dad who passes and gas and can laugh about it.
Next up is The Little Book of Beards…and a Couple of Mustaches!
Each beard in this book is accompanied by a bit of information about the style, what it says about those who wear it, how to grow that 
particular style and who of note is know for donning the beard.
Also, underneath each beard is a grooming, growing and grating rating so you’ll know how much trouble the new style of beard you’ve wanting to try out will be. We don’t want you to get in over your head.
My favorite style in this book is the Octopus, “As worn by the weird, the wonderful, and the really f***ing hairy.”
The Octopus is “Elaborate and complex, the Octopus is the ultimate experiment in beard landscaping (or “pogonotopiary” if you want to be fancy). You probably need to get our more, though.” You’ll notice that it’s got a grooming, growing and grating rate of 5 (the max). This beard is “Also worn by…Die-hard, competitive beardies, and mad scientists from The Future.”
This is an essential for all those Dads out there who love their whiskers.
Lastly we have My Tattooed Dad.
“Life is very exciting when Dad comes home. He fries up chicken samosas for dinner, makes jokes and fools around, and carries his sleepy son off to bed. He also tells wonderful stories that seem to almost spring from the fantastical tattoos all over his body. Even his letters tell amazing tales, such as how he saved the boy’s life twice – once when he was stolen from his baby basket by a wild dog and once when he flew out the car window!
But as the boy’s mother says, his dad has ants in his pants, which means he’s often not around. Still, life rolls along with one tale after another, in good times 
and bad. This extraordinary dad’s gift is the world of the imagination, which is always with his son, even when he is not.”
This book is just amazing.
All Dads should be read to every once in a while.
Hope this helps…at least a little.
by Zita
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